Who painted “The Sleepers”?

“The Sleepers” was painted by Gustave Courbet in 1866. Where to see it: Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris.

What to look for

Gustave Courbet: ordinary rural people and landscapes painted heavily, often with a palette knife, earthy colours and no idealisation.

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. Wikipedia

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“A Burial at Ornans”, 1849–1850
“The Painter's Studio”, 1855
“The Stone Breakers”, 1850
“Woman with a Parrot”, 1866
“The Meeting, or Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!”, 1854
“The Woman in the Waves”, 1868
“Le Désespéré”, 1840
“The Bathers”, 1853